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Summary

Carries #148 (fix(node): make creation-route rate limit configurable; fix(gl): surface real errors on pr create failure) onto an upstream branch so the upstream-only Code Quality check can run.

Motivation & context

The per-DID creation-route rate limit was hardcoded at 10 requests per hour. Operators who run heavier automation need to retune it without a rebuild. The original PR also routed gl pr create failure responses through a raw-body read; upstream has since landed a shared read_json helper that does that more thoroughly, so this PR's remaining payload is the configurability plus the review findings folded into the merge.

Kind of change

• Bug fix
• Feature
• Security fix
• Docs
• Tests / CI
• Refactor (no behavior change)
• Breaking or protocol change (issue required first)

What changed

• Config gains GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_MAX (default 10) and GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECS (default 3600), both rejecting 0 at parse time. The per-DID creation limiter in main is built from them through RateLimiter::new_bounded, keeping the 200k key bound upstream added.
• RateLimiter exposes window(); both 429 paths now emit retry-after derived from the limiter's actual window instead of a hardcoded 60, so the header stays honest when the window is retuned.
• gl pr create resolves to upstream's crate::http::read_json, which bounds the error-body read, sanitizes control and bidi characters, and falls back to capped raw text on non-JSON failures: the same goal as the original patch, more thoroughly tested.
• Merge detail: contributor commit preserved author-identical from 15e017ad; one merge commit brings main at c805e35f. Three files conflicted: config.rs unioned (the PR's two knobs plus upstream's newer config tail), main.rs kept upstream's limiter family with the PR's knobs wired into the per-DID limiter, pr.rs took upstream's read_json call.

How a reviewer can verify

cargo test -p gitlawb-node --bin gitlawb-node rate_limit
cargo test -p gl read_json

The rate-limit suite passes on the merged tree, including the middleware 429 path. The read_json battery covers the original review's gl asks already: non-JSON error bodies surface as capped text, control and bidi sequences are stripped, and an empty error body reports the status alone. Behavior at the defaults is unchanged: 10 requests per 3600s window reproduces the old hardcoded limiter.

Before you request review

• Scope is one logical change; no unrelated churn
• cargo test --workspace passes locally
• New behavior is covered by tests (required for fixes)
• cargo fmt --all and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean
• Commit titles use Conventional Commits
• Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (or N/A)
• Checked existing PRs so this isn't a duplicate

Protocol & signing impact

• Touches DID / did:key, Ed25519 / RFC 9421 signatures, UCAN, ref certs, or P2P wire formats
• Discussed in an issue before implementation
• Backward-compatible with existing nodes and previously signed history

Config-only rate-limit tunables plus a 429 header derivation; the limiter still keys on the already-verified DID, so no auth surface changes.

Notes for reviewers

• Original fork PR: fix(node): make creation-route rate limit configurable; fix(gl): surface real errors on pr create failure #148 (still open; will be pointed here and closed after this lands or on request). Maintainer takeover lane.
• The original review's zero-value reject, retry-after derivation, and body-surfacing asks are folded in above. Its stale-description note (a migration index mention) does not apply here: the index was already dropped from the branch, and this body describes what actually ships.
• 0 means something different across the two knob families on purpose: the new per-DID knobs reject it at parse time (0 would either block all creation or silently disable the limiter), while the pre-existing per-IP GITLAWB_*_RATE_LIMIT env knobs keep their documented 0-disables semantics with a startup warn.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Per-DID creation rate limits can now be configured, with defaults of 10 requests per hour. Both the request limit and time window must be greater than zero.
  • When a rate limit is reached, the retry timing now reflects the configured limit window.

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• crates/gitlawb-node/src/rate_limit.rs

Walkthrough

The node configuration now sets per-DID creation request limits and window duration. Per-DID and per-IP rate-limit responses use the relevant limiter window for the Retry-After header.

Changes: Rate-limit configuration and responses

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure the per-DID creation limiter crates/gitlawb-node/src/config.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/main.rs	Configuration adds a maximum request count and a window duration, both of which reject zero values. The per-DID limiter uses these settings; its key-set bound remains 200,000.
Set Retry-After from limiter windows crates/gitlawb-node/src/rate_limit.rs	RateLimiter::window() exposes the configured duration. Per-DID and per-IP 429 responses use their limiter window in seconds for Retry-After.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• Twigpine/node#152: This PR adds the too_many_requests helper whose signature and per-IP call site are changed here.
• Twigpine/node#161: This PR also changes the shared too_many_requests helper and per-IP rate-limit middleware.

Suggested labels: kind:bug, crate:node, crate:gl

Suggested reviewers: kevincodex1

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 1544b

Rate-limited clients that follow Retry-After may wait longer than needed before retrying, up to the full window. Behavior at the defaults otherwise matches the previous limit, so this is a bounded, low-risk imprecision rather than a blocker.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/gitlawb-node/src/rate_limit.rs:
- Line 306: Update the per-key and per-IP rejection paths that set the
Retry-After header to report the time until the oldest retained request expires,
rather than the full limiter window. Handle full-key-set rejections separately,
establishing their appropriate wait time without treating them as per-key
timestamp-based rejections.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Merge readiness

• Rebase onto current main before merge. Live origin/main is at a2262d92 (merge-base for this PR is c805e35f). main has landed substantial changes since that point (for example the reconciliation work in #551). Rebase, resolve any conflicts in the limiter wiring, and re-run CI on the rebased head.

• Required check cargo audit is failing on this run (RUSTSEC-2026-0253 and related advisory noise in the workspace graph). The three-file diff does not touch Cargo.toml or lockfiles. This is pre-existing workspace / target-branch debt, not introduced by this PR; merge stays BLOCKED in GitHub until maintainers fix or waive audit separately — not an author action in this diff.

• CodeRabbit Retry-After inline comment asks for time-until-oldest-timestamp rather than full window. This PR’s stated intent is to mirror the configured window (fixing the old hardcoded 60 vs 3600s mismatch). Out of scope for this PR unless maintainers choose RFC-style backoff; an author reply that points at the PR description is enough to close the thread.

• Docstring coverage (CodeRabbit pre-merge warning) is below threshold for touched functions. Non-blocking for correctness of the rate-limit change itself.

• PR title still mentions gl pr create error surfacing; that path is not in the current diff (resolved upstream via read_json). Consider narrowing the title for accurate release notes.

Explicitly not findings (drift check)

These were investigated and withheld from Findings so this review does not conscript a config-only PR into broader work:

• Retry-After = full configured window (including default 60 → 3600 on IP middleware): intentional on this head, documented in the PR body and in-diff rustdoc; not a limiter correctness bug.
• Missing config-parse or retry-after header tests: real checklist gap; no demonstrated production failure at the review bar.
• AppError::TooManyRequests without Retry-After on some push paths: unchanged on merge-base; not activated by this diff.
• cargo audit: see Merge readiness above.

Findings

🟡 P2 — Publish the new per-DID rate-limit env vars on every operator surface this PR opened

📍 Where: .env.example, crates/gitlawb-node/src/config.rs field docs (clap --help), PR checklist.

💥 What fails: An operator tuning creation automation reads .env.example and the sibling GITLAWB_CREATE_RATE_LIMIT entry, but never sees GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_MAX or GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECS. The knobs exist only in source and --help. The PR checklist marks “Docs / .env.example updated” as done while the env example file is unchanged on this head. Limiter behavior at defaults is otherwise as described in the PR; this is an operator-discovery and checklist accuracy issue, not a broken rate limit.

🔎 Root cause: The PR adds configurable per-DID limits but does not update the operator-facing env catalog that the repo points contributors and deployers at, while listing adjacent rate-limit variables there.

📜 Stated contract:

PR template: “Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (or N/A)”

CONTRIBUTING: “Everything else has sensible defaults — see .env.example.”

🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced. Merge-base .env.example already documents GITLAWB_CREATE_RATE_LIMIT and other brakes; this PR adds new config without extending that file.

📌 In this PR:

• config.rs — new fields documented for --help
• .env.example — missing both GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_MAX and GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECS
• PR body checklist — claims docs updated

🔒 Unchanged on main: Existing entries for GITLAWB_PUSH_RATE_LIMIT, GITLAWB_CREATE_RATE_LIMIT, etc. Need not be rewritten in this PR.

🔧 Required correction: Add commented examples for GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_MAX and GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECS beside the existing creation rate-limit block in .env.example, matching the defaults and semantics in config.rs (reject 0 at parse). In the same pass, fix the rate_limit_max_requests field doc: if 0 reached the limiter it would disable the limiter (RateLimiter::check allows all when max_requests == 0), not “block every creation request” — the parse-time reject is still correct, but the help text should describe the real failure mode.

🛠️ Author fix: Close the root cause on every “In this PR” row in one pass — env example, both field docstrings as needed, and uncheck or fix the checklist claim. Do not patch only config.rs or only .env.example.

🚫 Out of scope: Changing retry-after algorithm, retuning IP-family limiters, README tables for unrelated knobs, gl client behavior, cargo audit, or pre-existing handler 429 shapes.

[beardthelion]

Round items addressed at d30136e, which re-merges current main (contributor commit preserved).

Merge readiness: the re-merge resolves the conflict state and picks up the RUSTSEC-2026-0459 audit waiver from #564, so the cargo audit leg you flagged clears on this head. The rate_limit.rs conflicts were unioned to keep both sides: the PR's parametrized retry_after_secs through main's shared too_many_requests helper and RATE_LIMIT_MESSAGE constant.

P2 operator surfaces: .env.example now documents GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_MAX=10 and GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECS=3600 beside the existing creation-rate-limit block, and the rate_limit_max_requests rustdoc is corrected to the real failure mode: 0 would silently disable the limiter (RateLimiter::check allows all when max_requests == 0), which is why the parse-time reject matters. All three In-this-PR rows closed in one pass.

Retry-After: replying on the inline thread with the PR's stated intent (mirror the configured window rather than the old hardcoded 60); remaining-wait semantics stay out of scope as you framed it.

Title: noting the gl pr create path is not in this diff; a narrower title is reasonable for release notes.

[jatmn]

Rechecked on head d30136ef. The prior P2 operator-surface gap is closed in this diff; I do not see further actionable defects in the changed surfaces.

Merge readiness

• Rebase onto current main before merge. Live origin/main is at 209618a (#555 inbound mirror config). This branch’s merge-base with main is still a00d7d5c, one commit behind the target. git merge-tree shows a content conflict in .env.example (this PR’s GITLAWB_RATE_LIMIT_* block vs main’s new upstream-mirror section). Rebase, resolve that section, and re-run CI on the rebased head.

• PR title still mentions fix(gl): surface real errors on pr create failure; that path is absent from the current diff (handled upstream via read_json). Narrowing the title helps release notes accuracy.

• CodeRabbit docstring-coverage pre-merge warning on touched functions is non-blocking for this change set.

Explicitly not findings (drift check)

• Full-window Retry-After: Intentional on this head; fixes merge-base lying header (60 vs 3600s). Remaining-wait semantics would be a product follow-up, not a defect in this diff.

• Per-IP middleware sharing the new too_many_requests(window) helper: Same honesty fix for IP limiters already using 3600s windows.

• Missing retry-after / config-parse regression tests: Checklist gap only; no demonstrated production failure at the review bar.

• Per-IP creation brake window still fixed at 3600s while only the per-DID knobs are new: Pre-existing two-knob design; documented asymmetry with GITLAWB_CREATE_RATE_LIMIT.

• AppError::TooManyRequests paths without Retry-After: Unchanged at merge-base; not activated here.

Findings

🟢 Thanks for the contribution. I do not see any actionable issues from my review.